Tag: Wikipedia

A visit at Schule für Gestaltung Basel, formerly Allgemeine Gewerbeschule (Vogelsangstrasse 15), on a sunny day of July. This design school was one of the birth places of the Swiss typographic style, many decades ago. In those buildings (built around 1960), the wizards of typographic craft – Emil Ruder, Armin Hofmann, Wolfgang Weingart, André Gürtler……

I was busy this last few days working with the export functionality of Wikipedia (some new Greyscale publications upcoming shortly…). A quick overview: in the end of 2007, the Wikimedia Foundation announces its collaboration with a German start-up, PediaPress, aiming at developing an export function that would allow “high quality print and word processor copies”…